{"product_id":"politics-as-radical-creation-9781442644885","title":"Politics as Radical Creation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePolitics as Radical Creation examines the meaning of democratic practice through the critical social theory of the Frankfurt School.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Politics as Radical Creation consists of rigorous interpretations of texts by Marcuse and Arendt, that bring out the richness of these texts and suggest promising possibilities for further connections between critical theory and Arendt's political thinking.' -- Michiel Bot Political Theory June 2016 'Holman's is a compelling and important project... with its timely rich analysis of the parallels between Arendt and Marcuse, Holman's book is well positioned to inspire and propel forward such work.' -- Jennie Han Theory and Event vol 17:03:2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Marcuse, Arendt, and the Idea of Politics  Chapter One: Marcuse's Critique and Reformulation of the Philosophical Concept of Essence   * Culture and Bourgeois Freedom * Critical Theory and the Ethical Imperative: Happiness-Reason-Freedom * Hegel and the Dialectic of Negativity * Essence and the Dialectic of Labour   Chapter Two: The Dialectic of Instinctual Liberation: Essence and Non-Repressive Sublimation   * The Problem of Repression: Individual and Social, Basic and Surplus * The Affirmation of Sensuousness: Primary Narcissism and Non-Repressive Sublimation * Non-Repressive Sublimation and Non-Alienated Labour   Chapter Three: The Problem of Politics   * Marx's Political Ambiguity * The Limits of Western Marxism * Marcuse's Reproduction of the Marxian Anti-Politics * Administration as Domination and Liberation   Chapter Four: Hannah Arendt's Theory of Public Freedom   * Performativity and Essence: The Need for Radical Creation * The Subject of Radical Creation: Politics and the We * Agonism, Democracy, and Political Objectification * Arendt and Revolutionary History * The Institutionalization of the Revolutionary Impulse: The Council Tradition   Chapter Five: Marcuse Contra Arendt: Dialectics, Destiny, Distinction   * Questioning Distinction: the Vita Activa and Marx's Ontology of Labour * Arendt's Critique of the Dialectic: On the Need for Distinction * Marcuse's Critique of Non-Dialectical Dialectics   Chapter Six: Marcuse: Reconsidering the Political   * The Theory of the Radical Act * The Affirmation of Socialist Nature * Politics and the New Left * Spontaneity and the Council Tradition   Conclusion: From the New Left to Global Justice and from the Councils to  Cochabamba  Works Cited","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187499983191,"sku":"9781442644885","price":54.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442644885.jpg?v=1782127192","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/politics-as-radical-creation-9781442644885","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}